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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Niteowl on December 18, 2003, 01:45:06 AM

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Niteowl on December 18, 2003, 01:45:06 AM

the latest steam update has killed steam on my box, anyone else having this problem? i'm running win 2k sp4, i think. it's some memory reference error.

if anyone has thsi problem, and/or has a solution for it, please put the link here.

soo, for a while, there will be no bind of death or on going type kills on old owlie :)

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Satanic Monkey on December 18, 2003, 06:34:00 AM

I haven't updated yet , when i get home i don't know if i should update or not.

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Lightning Blue on December 18, 2003, 07:41:43 AM

Latest update of Steam (18th of the December) can cause the following error:

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steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 0163048B: Attempt to write to virtual address 2439276314 without appropriate access rights.


STEAM.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
The instruction at "0x1000ecd" referenced memory at "0x016470c0." The memory could not be "read."


To fix go to your Steam folder and delete the file ClientRegistry.blob, it should work properly after this.

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Vinegar Ninja on December 18, 2003, 08:11:21 AM

the problem I had with steam was that it raped my system reasoures! I have a screenie of it being at 1% with steam open, and at 60 with it off....

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: lolfighter on December 18, 2003, 08:54:45 AM

Damn you LB, I was gonna post that!

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Niteowl on December 18, 2003, 02:15:04 PM

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Latest update of Steam (18th of the December) can cause the following error:

Quote:
steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 0163048B: Attempt to write to virtual address 2439276314 without appropriate access rights.


STEAM.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
The instruction at "0x1000ecd" referenced memory at "0x016470c0." The memory could not be "read."


To fix go to your Steam folder and delete the file ClientRegistry.blob, it should work properly after this.

ah thank ya :) altho, i just reinstalled, and it seems fine :)

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: crack on December 24, 2003, 10:10:43 AM

MY STEAM:
Crashes my pc
Freezes my pc
Shuts down the game

EVERY FKN 10 MINS!!! Its even worst when i com, i get kicked like 3 times.

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Satiagraha on December 24, 2003, 11:06:17 AM

Does anyone know why when i run Sven through Steam, it opens up the HL.exe and you get the background image, then just as the menu text ("Find Servers", "Options", etc.) would show up, it crashes to my desktop?

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: crack on December 24, 2003, 05:30:15 PM

steam totally rapes my pc. restarts it or freezes it. Never happend on WON.

btw my pc never freezes. only when i use steam.

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Fewlio on December 26, 2003, 11:56:19 AM

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steam totally rapes my pc. restarts it or freezes it. Never happend on WON.

btw my pc never freezes. only when i use steam.

heh, welcome to my world! errr wait.... steam works great for me now..... but it used to do all that to me @_@. Also Satiagrah are you sure you installed it to the right location?

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: Satiagraha on December 26, 2003, 12:47:28 PM

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Also Satiagrah are you sure you installed it to the right location?

quite sure, although, one day it just worked, thats steam for ya, it really needs some :help:

Title: Steam Borked
Post by: m0nk3ym4n on December 27, 2003, 01:29:45 PM

guys, plain and simple, The golden rule of Steamand all hl mods: When something goes wrong, AND IT WILL:
1. Back up your data, the entire directory
2. Remove the Steam or Mod's directory
3. Reinstall into a Fresh, unused Folder with nothing else there, so if it was "C:\steam" Make it "C:\steam(new)\steam" or something jazzy like that
4. boot your app!

I've heard this even from tech support at Sierra, Just follow that and you'll be set for any issues, cept for Fmod issues :p